Nanxuan Swamp is located in a lowland between Quwu Mountain and Yuancheng Mountain, which was originally supposed to be the best passage from Chenyu County to Tanxi County, Xijun, but because the mountain springs and streams on Quwu Mountain and Yuancheng Mountain all poured into this depression, forming a swamp separated from the two places.
Nanxuan Swamp is full of dangers, in addition to the quagmire hidden in the swamp that can swallow people at any time, this is also a paradise where mud snakes live, there are many poisonous mud snakes hidden in the mud and water of the swamp, from which they may escape at any time and kill people.
In addition to these, there are also some desperate scattered cultivators hidden in the Nanxuan swamp, these people either committed murders in Yu County, or in Xi County, and had to hide in the swamp after being chased and killed.
However, before coming to Nanxuan Swamp, Yang Junshan also found that some monks from Fangshi Town had organized to venture into the swamp and try to cross into the territory of Tanxi County, Xi County.
A cold light flashed from Yang Junshan's side, and a thin snake with the thickness of a finger that suddenly came out of the quagmire was cut into two pieces by him with the horizontal knife in his hand, falling into the sludge and twisting back and forth, splashing pieces of muddy water.
Unlike those ordinary monks who need to use a long wooden stick to stick in front of them when crossing the swamp to prevent falling into the quagmire, Yang Junshan is familiar with this Nanxuan swamp, he can clearly distinguish whether it is a road or a trap under the muddy water, although he still can't walk on flat ground, but at least other people who enter the swamp walk much faster.
The horizontal knife in Yang Junshan's hand is a weapon that Han Xiusheng is used to, although it is not a magic weapon, but it is also made of hundred chains of steel, the quality is very good, this time he entered the swamp, Han Xiusheng gave him this knife for self-defense.
In addition, Yang Junshan's seven-stone bow was also diagonally straddling his shoulders, and his back was full of talisman arrows, although this seven-stone iron tire bow was still soft for Yang Junshan now, but at this time, what he needed was no longer the power of the bow and arrow itself, but the power of the talisman arrow comparable to the spell and the range far exceeded the spell.
The quagmire here has been inhabited by the mud snake for a long time, and under the continuous whipping of the snake's body, a part of the mud water mixed with spiritual energy and the surface body fluids of the mud snake will turn into spiritual material heavenly glaze mud.
With the different colors of the heavenly glaze mud itself, the heavenly glaze mud can also be divided into upper, middle and lower grades, among which the cyan heavenly glaze mud is the lowest quality and the most common low-grade spiritual material, and it is also the preferred target for Yang Junshan to enter the swamp this time; If the color of the heavenly glaze mud turns red, then its quality will rise to the middle grade spiritual material of the Dharma level; And if it turns pale yellow, it is a high-grade spiritual material of the Dharma level that can be used to refine high-grade magic weapons.
Therefore, the place where the heavenly glazed mud in the swamp is most likely to exist must be the place where mud snakes gather the most densely, and what Yang Junshan is going to this time is a snake pool in his previous life memory.
The mud snakes that jumped up from the quagmire around him were all cut into two pieces by Yang Junshan, regardless of their size, but some mud snakes kept lurking on the road Yang Junshan passed through, until the moment he stepped on it, he suddenly stretched out his head and bit his calves or feet, but then he was shocked by the kick he stepped on and his bones were crushed.
Although Yang Junshan had never engraved the Earthquake Technique as a natal spell on the Immortal Root as a natal spell, he could also practice ordinary spells after advancing to the fifth level.
Although he had not successfully practiced the Earth Shake Technique in a short period of time, it was not difficult to use it to shake off one or two mud snakes.
However, the scene that soon appeared in front of him made Yang Junshan a little suspicious, Yang Junshan in his previous life as a casual practitioner learned a lot, including the art of tracking, although muddy water flowed in this swamp, it would gradually cover up the traces of people walking by, but the footprints in front of him had not yet had time to be soaked in muddy water.
Judging from Yang Junshan's experience, the traces left on the ground should be that two groups of people walked before and after, and the path of the previous group of people was roughly the same as that of Yang Junshan, and it should also come from Fangshi Town; And the other group of people came from the south, so nine out of ten should be from Xi County.
However, what made Yang Junshan curious was not that the paths of these two groups of people went in the same direction after meeting here, but that the group of people who followed them was obviously following the group in front.
Ha, could it be that he let himself encounter the black eating black of the desperate monk in the swamp?
However, Yang Junshan was obviously not interested in intervening, but after following this path for a while, Yang Junshan still found that the reason why the latter group of people was able to track the back of the previous group of people was not because they also had tracking masters like Yang Junshan, but because the previous group of people should have the insiders of the latter group, leaving extremely secret marks on the road.
On the occasionally exposed rocks in the swamp, Yang Junshan picked up a piece of sludge from it, and pulled out a broken runestone the size of a fingernail cap from it, which should be a trace stone, usually used by monks to prevent getting lost, and it should be that someone in the previous group secretly placed the rune stone in the sludge as a mark for the next group to track.
However, the latter group of people may have thought it was dirty or for other reasons, but after walking along the mark, they did not pick up the trace stone in the mud, but directly stomped it down, but never thought that in the eyes of a tracking master like Yang Junshan, this is not an obvious mark.
After walking in this direction for a while, Yang Junshan turned to the other direction, this place should be getting closer and closer to the snake pool, and the mud snakes attacking him along the way were also more and more frequent, and the mud snakes that came out of the quagmire were getting bigger and bigger, more and more ferocious.
Gradually, there was a sound of "clattering, crackling" in the distance, like a stream rushing down, the rushing water "clattering" sounded, and the water splashed on the river rocks to make a "crackling" sound.
As Yang Junshan walked in more and more, such a sound became louder and louder, until he carefully walked to a boulder in the swamp, and slowly leaned out from behind the boulder and looked at the scene in front of him.
Although Snake Pond was not the first time Yang Junshan had seen it, he still felt a tingling sensation in his scalp whenever he saw it again.
Dense mud snakes crowded in the quagmire within a radius of hundreds of feet, these mud snakes entangled with each other, swimming, whipping, playing, fighting, bustling in the pool, and countless mud flowers splashed from the quagmire into the air with the shaking of the mud snake's body all the time, and then fell down with a "clatter", this is the sound that Yang Junshan just heard as if it were the impact of the rushing water.
Yang Junshan bent down and walked slowly along the periphery of the quagmire with some fear, for fear of accidentally alarming the tens of thousands of mud snakes in the quagmire, with his current strength, if he was chased by tens of thousands of mud snakes, I am afraid that there would not even be any scum left by then.
Some of the mud snakes were large and small, and the arms of the big ones were thick, one or two feet long, and some of the mud splashed by the snake's body shook off the huge force fell directly out of the quagmire, and Yang Junshan was walking along the quagmire, carefully checking the mud that splashed out to see if it contained starry sky-glaze mud.
Before Yang Junshan did not have the strength to exterminate this entire pool of tens of thousands or even more mud snakes, this method of accumulating a lot of hardship was the fastest way to collect heavenly glaze mud, unless he could have the luck against the sky, and happened to find a piece of heavenly glaze mud with enough weight in this swamp.
Wow......
A puddle of muddy water fell from the sky, splashing Yang Junshan's head and face, but he not only didn't care about dodging, but he didn't even care about wiping off the mud on his body, because Yang Junshan saw a ball of blue mud smashing on the ground and splashing everywhere, so he hurriedly walked over to take a look, and there was really a lot of heavenly glaze mud in this ball of muddy water.
Yang Junshan quickly collected this cyan water into a gourd he carried with him, and then he needed to precipitate, filter, and purify these muddy waters, and then the rest was the inferior spiritual material heavenly glaze mud that could be used to refine the vessel.
A mud snake suddenly rushed out of the quagmire, and Yang Junshan, who was always in a tight mind, flew over with an arrow, and the horizontal knife in his hand flashed, and the snake's head was directly cut off with a "poof".
During this process, Yang Junshan did not dare to use spells, did not dare to inject the slightest spiritual power into the weapon, and could only rely on the agility and strength of his physical body to complete it.
Once Yang Junshan uses the spiritual power in his body to cause spiritual energy turmoil, it is possible to attract dozens or even hundreds of mud snakes to rush out of the pool at any time next to this quagmire, and if the mud snakes that come out are not killed in time, then more companions will be summoned by the mud snakes immediately.
In the quagmire of a hundred zhang, Yang Junshan carefully walked down in a circle and spent an hour, killing more than ten large and small mud snakes, and the collected heavenly glaze mud water only filled one-tenth of the big gourd.
Just halfway through, just when Yang Junshan was collecting a ball of sky-glazed mud that just splashed out, suddenly three or four mud snakes entangled together rolled out of the quagmire, and several mud snakes were suddenly thrown away at the moment of landing.
Yang Junshan looked bad, and even the heavenly glaze mud water didn't care about cleaning it up, so he rushed over and flashed several blades one after another, slashing the four mud snakes with the thickness of his arms, but at this moment, the hair on Yang Junshan's back suddenly exploded, and someone attacked from behind!
Yang Junshan didn't care about the mud on the ground, and rolled to avoid a cold wind blowing from behind, and when he looked up, Yang Junshan suddenly gasped, and he didn't even want to turn around and run away!
At this time, I saw that Yang Junshan actually escaped, and the snake letter in the mouth of the giant snake spat back and forth with a "sigh" sound, and the noisy "crackling" sound in the quagmire not far away suddenly paused, and then a wave of snakes suddenly surged out of the quagmire, chasing in the direction of Yang Junshan's escape.